Blog performance speed is very crucial to every site owner. We need to serve our web pages as fast as we can to give the best experience to visitor. This is also apply to search engine like Google. Google like blogs that can load within seconds. You will see your blog traffic will slightly increase as the web pages loading time decrease.

In order to improve wordpress performance, we can apply several simple methods without taking risk to change difficult modification on server configuration files or server settings. We should learn to improve wordpress performance without touching the coding or complex configuration whenever possible.

Let’s look at what we can do to achieve the best result.

How to Speed Up WordPress Load Time

W3 Total Cache – This is must-have cache plugin for every wordpress blogger. It will helps to decrease all the CSS, JS, and HTML pages size. All required files to server will be compress into a folder for faster serving and improve site loading time. I manage to save 5-6 seconds of loading time after install this great plugin. You should tweak the settings on this plugin to match with your blog purpose. Some high traffic blogs require lesser cache time.

CloudFlare CDN – Not many people think of using Content Delivery Network (CDN) for their blog. CDN is a very useful service to improve your wordpress speed. If you have visitors around the world, you will benefit from using CDN. It provides benefit to cache static content, advanced routing technology, help protect your domain and for other security purpose. It is FREE to use. If your blog is hosted on Hostgator, you will an option to active CloudFlare in your cPanel. No signup and configuration is required. You just need to click to active the service and it will take 10 minutes or more to take effect. However, I am not sure how reliable this FREE service is but you can get the Pro account for $20 per month. My blog gain a few seconds loading time decrease after install this service via Hostgator.

WP-Optimize – This is another great plugin to clear unused records in database such as revisions data, spam comments, and option tables. These wordpress tables will grow eventually in the future. WP Optimize will optimize the tables for you and let you know which tables you need to optimize and how much space you can save. Reducing database size can greatly improve wordpress load time.

Premium WordPress Theme – Choosing the best wordpress theme will improve WordPress load time dramatically. Since it is the back-bone of your blog, it will greatly affect the overall performance. My blog is powered by Thesis Theme. It is a very good WordPress theme for SEO benefit and simplifying the framework design to maximize benefit. Many people claim that their blog traffic increase a bit after installing it. Another great framework is Genesis framework which is also very popular amongst its Elegant Theme user.

WP-Smush it – I have been using WP Smush it since the early day. It is a great plugin that automatically compress photos and images uploaded via WordPress. The process is done at the background and it is unnoticeable. It will helps to reduce a few kilobytes of redundant photos size to improve the overall quality of your blog.

Remove Unnecessary Plugins – Beware of some plugins that will cause your blog to slow down. One of the issue that I had face was the YARPP plugin. This is a great plugin but not recommended for blog with average or high traffic. It had call too many database requests to perform its caching operation. Although, it will not make your blog down but it is a good practice to minimize the database requests to improve blog performance.

Disable Gravatar – Disabling gravatar on WordPress will improve load time especially when your blog have a lot of comments. Gravatar will get the profile photos for each commentator and it will add up the load time.

limfy.com traffic is increasing slowly and pass the target 1k daily traffic since the new year 2011. As Google update my blog PageRank to 2 and I had change my blog theme to Thesis, traffic is going to increase as well.

As you know, my blog didn’t get update frequently and traffic starting to drop since last few weeks ago because I am busy with moving house, buying new computer, and subscribing new internet broadband. Currently, I am using P1 WiMAX 1.2MB 4G connection and the speed can compare with my existing Streamyx 1MB internet wired broadband.

How to Achieve 3k Daily Unique Visitor Faster?

In order to achieve faster result, I need to publish many articles like 3-4 unique quality articles every day for few months. By doing this, I could achieve my target 3k daily unique visitors because more articles count equals to more traffic amount.

I have come to understand that passion is what I needed the most to achieve the target. Not only I should be passionate of blogging but I also need to be discipline in posting frequency.

Why I Want to Say It Out Loud?

One of the lesson that I have learn from the book “The Secret” was the law of attraction By sharing what I love to do, in return I would getting more of those things that I love. So, focus on what you love and hate bring no different because it is the matter of what you are focusing at.

Do Not Give Up Easily

I had saw many blogs started to fade out and not updating anymore. This is very sad especially no more new posts. I remind myself from time to time, what if I had give up on last time? I will be regret and not going to move forward in my life.

I know everyone has at least one dream in their life and we should make our dream come true. Living without a dream is like living a life without meaning. No matter what we want to do, as soon as we are happy and no regret that should be fine

Hope you are motivated when you read this post. Happy blogging!

As you know, limfy.com had transferred to shared hosting on hostgator since last week. I have forget to publish a new post about that. My existing hosting provider is ipserverone in Malaysia. I had no issue hosting with them. Their server is stable and seldom had down time.

The main reason I am moving to hostgator is, most of my blog traffic is coming from US and other countries. I need a fast server with high speed bandwidth to serve more visitor.

After I have moved my blog to hostgator, the performance speed has improved. This is due to reduce DNS look up time and the server’s bandwidth speed is fast enough.

Yeah. Hostgator is really a reputable company. Many blogger are hosting with them. I have seen my traffic improve slightly after the transferred. Currently I am waiting for my domain transfer. As soon as my domain transfer progress is completed. I should get the maximum page speed optimization on limfy.com

I have try to submit my application on last several months ago but rejected due to my traffic is still low at the period. After publishing more interesting post and unique topic, I am able to increase my web traffic to 100% and more by securing some keywords. Yeah. Finally, I am able to join now.

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Google published its first SEO starter guide about two years ago. With this latest SEO Starter Guide 2010, it is updated with more contents, examples and SEO tips. SEO Starter Guide is suitable for webmaster with beginner level to get a clear picture of SEO and how to implement it on their website or blog. In this ebook, it covers about mobile site optimization also. With the rapid growing of mobile technology and popularity of mobile devices, mobile site can become part of the important web traffic source.

Besides that, there are many topics covered in this ebook. From basic writing to best practices, you can also learn how to optimize your site with Googlebot to improve web traffic. All the do and don’t are written clearly format and simplify with more example images for easy understanding.

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Earning from Adsense is difficult when your blog has low traffic and didn’t generate much impressions. The more traffic your blog has, the more earning you will make. Readers are your customers. To improve customers coming to your site, you need to serve them with better service and make them have a satisfy stay.

Optimize your Adsense Targeting and Settings

Put your adsense at the best section to maximize your earning. Adsense section targeting is based on readers most focus attention area in your blog. There are various section which have better different targeting such as content and header section. Most of the time, these sections are paying high to publishers and it can fit more ads to readers.

Publish more articles

Type as fast as you can to publish more articles. By doing this consistently, you are able to generate more traffic and your adsense earning will be increase at the same time. Each unique article does count. Publish your articles everyday if you can. I know it is a big commitment. It is very difficult to reach the goal if commitment and habit didn’t apply to it. Make it a habit to publish at least an article a week.

Learn what is SEO

SEO is not playing a big role today. Although it helps to improve web traffic and generate organic source from search engine, most search engine company will crack down on any site that found apply “too much” or overwhelming of SEO. Such action will be penalize by search engine. Learn the basic is good enough already.

It is not a myth but it is a fact. Many professional blogger out there would advice you to write more content for people but not search engine. This is a very true statement. Writing more quality articles will bring potential traffic to your blog but you have to make sure the articles are providing the information they wanted.

Why More Articles = More Traffic Potential?

You might wonder why more articles equals to more traffic potential while you can apply SEO technique to your article and make it appear on the 1st page of Google Search Engine. Numbers are the keyword here. SEO is a good way to increase web traffic but it is not stable. The performance is rely on search engine which mean you have a risk at here. When search engine change their algorithm on backlinks, keywords and other factors, your blog traffic will be affected heavily by the changed.

Are you confidence with your articles popularity?

You can also measure your blog popularity to know why some articles bring more traffic than other. Popular articles mean readers like the article very much and they provide useful information as they wanted. Effective article marketing can bring much popularity to your articles also. Make sure you publish the link to your articles everywhere and subscribe to any ping services to improve web traffic and readership. Submitting partial content of article to social networking websites is a good method to improve readership also. You need to publish your article to every potential website as much as possible if you want to increase its popularity. Example Set your blog to auto post to facebook to increase readership from facebook friends.

Link it all together

When you have decent amount of good quality articles, you can plan to link them together using link building technique. This technique also ensure a stable potential traffic over the months. Internal links work perfectly on your blog because it didn’t rely on external links. Inter-linking between articles spread your blog traffic and blog readership across different types of content. Visitor will likely to stay longer when they found easy to navigate to each articles.

Conclusion

How much articles do you own now? limfy.com has a total of 120 articles only. Not much but I will increase the total amount in the future. My target is 500 articles before end of the year. What about you? Do you have any target posting a certain amount of articles?

When you are choosing a competitive keywords to rank well in search engine, you will hardly see your monthly web traffic to improve because you have to compete with million of blogs out there. Let’s say your targeted keywords is Blogging Tips, and many other blogs are writing the same niche with you. So, you will need to stay ahead of the crowd and if you really want your blog to appear in first page of SERP is very hard. You need to have consistent publishing new unique contents or you can tweak your blog with effective SEO techniques. Using wrong technique will increase your chances of being penalized by Google. So, be careful of what you gonna do. Here is how you can stay competitive.

Keep writing fresh and unique contents

Become a content publishing freak. Publish as much articles as you can but make sure the articles are useful and help to increase your reader’s experience. Don’t focus too much on optimizing your keywords tough, you should focus on writing content for human, not search engine. Search engine likes fresh and updated contents. Regular update will increase the crawl rate of your blog also.

Build your brand effectively

If you have difficulty of optimize your niche keywords, you can alternative solution by building your brand and do some internet marketing. This is why internet marketers exist. They build trust, communication and relationship with other people. They usually focus more on communicate with other blogger and users by using social network like Twitter, Facebook and Digg. When they have solid brand already, traffic is usually come from their huge loyal contacts in these social networking community. See my post on how to auto post to facebook.

Tweak your niche keywords

Here you will need to have SEO skill to optimize your targeted keywords to a solid ground. You need to have a lots of support from external blogs which link back to your blog. Example of this, try to search for DoFollow blog comments. This type of blogs gives you link back to your blog and add value to your keyword. The downfall is that you don’t know when they will turn off the DoFollow feature. When they do that, you will lost the backlinks and at the same time it hurts your blog ranking.

So, keep posting new content, guys. Hope you will find these tips useful